Interfaces for Understanding Multi-Agent Behavior. Szekely, P., Rogers, Milo, C., & Frank, M. In Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2001), pages 161–166, 2001.
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Synchronized punch-card displays are an interface technique to visualize tens of thousands of variables by encoding their values as color chips in a rectangular array. Our technique ties multiple such displays to a timeline of events enabling the punch-card displays to show animations of the behavior of complex systems. Punch-card displays not only make it easy to understand the high-level behavior of systems, but also enable users to quickly focus on individual variables and on fine-grained time intervals. This paper describes synchronized punch-card displays and shows how this technique is extremely powerful for understanding the behavior of complex multi-agent systems.

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